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Female friendship in eighteenth-century English literature [ Feelings and Emotions ]

… in Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell (eds), Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690–1820s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018, p. 153-164), p. 160. Carnell adds that such image ‘two and a half centuries later, has … and Manushag N. Powell (eds), Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690–1820s: The Long Eighteenth Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018, p. 178-189), p.182. 12 . Amanda E. Herbert, Female Alliances: Gender, …

Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]

… were typically found in the North of England and Scotland, these women were elected from amongst the civic elite. 10  In Edinburgh in the 1760s and 1770s, the Honourable Miss Nicky Murray, daughter of the 6 th Viscount of Stormont and sister … (1673-1748), of Abbey Courtyard, Bath, Som.’, History of Parliament Online, 2020. 10 . Robert Chambers, Traditions of Edinburgh (Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1869), p. 289. 11 . Edward Topham, Letters from Edinburgh; Written in the Years 1774 and …

Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]

… reading venue City Westminster In his Autobiography, Dr. Alexander Carlyle, a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, described his encounter with Andrew Millar, a prominent London bookseller who was visiting Harrogate in 1763. … were numerous booksellers of Scottish descent (Millar, Strahan, Donaldson) who kept their connections with Glasgow and Edinburgh. As far as the American towns were concerned, various studies have underlined the similarities between the …

Lord Byron [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… intitulé  Hours of Idleness , par ‘George Gordon Lord Byron, a minor’ qu’accueille une violente critique par la célèbre  Edinburgh Review . Byron répond en écrivant, l’année suivante,  English Bards and Scotch Reviewers , une satire contre … Men: Lost Angels of a Ruined Paradise (Boston: Pagan Press, 2017) Lennartz, Norbert, Byron and Marginality (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018) Patanè, Vincenzo, The Sour Fruit: Lord Byron, Love & Sex (Roma: John Cabot University …

William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… From the publication of  Poems, in Two Volumes  (1807) onwards, Francis Jeffrey, a prominent critic of the  Edinburgh Review , relentlessly excoriated Wordsworth in his reviews over his singular style and choice of themes. Even …

Germaine de Staël [ Aristocracy / Art and Literature ]

… in Simone Balayé (ed.), Les Carnets de voyage de Madame de Staël (Genève: Droz, 1971), pp. 367-368. 4 . Auteur pour l’Edinburgh Review d’un article sur De la littérature (1800), paru en Angleterre en 1812, évoquant Staël comme ‘the first female writer of her age’, The Edinburgh Review (vol. 21, n° XLI, février 1813). Saison des  country-house parties  et de la chasse, l’automne voit les … done above stairs with their masters’. 12 12 . Louis Sismond, Journal of a Tour and Residence in England in 1810-1811 (Edinburgh: G. Ramsay, 1815), t. I, p. 28. Benjamin Constant, de passage à Londres en 1816, déplore à son tour …